THE devastated mum of a 16-year-old boy stabbed yards from his Erith home has told of her "nightmare".

Teenager Aaron Bhachu was walking to his local shop when he was attacked outside a bus stop in West Street.

The former Woolwich College student, of Galleon Close, Erith, suffered a punctured lung during the daylight stabbing on Monday, last week. (April 15)

Speaking exclusively to the News Shopper today, his mother Lukhber Sahota, 37, said: "I am devastated, he’s my son, I love him to bits."

"As far as I know Aaron was called "a paki" and it escalated from there.

"A group of four men were sitting at the bus stop and one of them ran across the road and stabbed him.

"I just want him to get better and to come home to me."

She added: "I would like to keep him wrapped up in cotton wool but he’s a 16-year-old boy and it was 4pm.

"It’s terrifying to think I’m in a neighbourhood where things like this happen."

The mum-of-two was working at the Co-Op in Long Lane, Bexleyheath when Aaron’s dad called her to break the news.

She said: "My mind went numb, I did not know what to do. "I didn’t know what to say, I was lost.

"Lots of things were going through my head."

Miss Sahota jumped in a taxi and arrived at West Street to find police officers and ambulance crews outside Kwik-Fit.

The London Air Ambulance was also scrambled at 4.15pm and landed next to the Running Horses pub in Erith High Street.

Aaron suffered a punctured lung and was taken by land ambulance to King’s College Hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.

His mum, who has been keeping a bedside vigil, said the wound was one-and-a-half inches deep and Aaron needed surgery to remove blood which had leaked into his lungs.

Bexley police are hunting for four white men in connection with the "unprovoked random attack".

As News Shopper went to press no arrests had been made.

Miss Sahota has been leafleting flyers to try to find information which could lead to the arrest of the offender.

"Its a nightmare", she said. "To know that the guy’s still out there, I want him caught and brought to justice," she said.

Police are not treating this as a gang-related incident.

Anyone with information should call Detective Constable Richard Rowlerson at Bexley CID on 020 8284 9116 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.